If Egyptian businessman Mohammed Ali has his way on Friday, hundreds of thousands will take to the streets to demand the resignation of President Abdel Fattah el Sisi.
It’s a tall order given Egypt’s brutal reputation for repressing protests, which includes the massacres of hundreds at Cairo’s Rabaa Square in 2013. Dissent has since been a rarity, with all but the bravest daring to openly speak out against the Sisi regime, risking prison or exile. For Ali, it was the latter.
The construction contractor and film actor says he was short-changed to the tune of tens of millions by Egypt’s military for projects across the country. Further accusing the army and its commander-in-chief of pilfering billions from the state’s coffers on projects that were either economically unviable or unnecessarily extravagant. They included multiple palaces for Sisi in the suburbs of Cairo, as well as the Mediterranean city of Alexandria.
From his exile in Spain, Ali has gone on a one-man social media war against Sisi and the Egyptian regime. His videos complaining of corruption and oppression have gone viral on Twitter and other platforms, spawning hashtags that slammed the government.
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